Your favourite album of the summer (if you like The Knife)
So we want to tell you about an album that arrived last week. It's called 'The Jade Motel' and it's by a Swedish band called Zeigeist, whose track 'Tar Heart' …
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The Newsdump, May 13 2008: from people planting trees to James Bond's "Amy, please"
What's going on? » The Isle of Wight festival replaces one slightly wooden performance with another. (The Guardian) » The Sugababes — "currently made up of Keisha, Heidi and Amelle" — now spend…
Uses for numerous identical CD singles, Part 75
For some reason, Popjustice HQ received twelve (twelve) copies of the same CD single today. The single in question is 'Body Crash' by Buy Now. It features a 'Let's All…
A masterclass in online marketing
Starting later this month, it will be illegal for companies including record labels, PRs and managers to pretend to be normal music fans when they post online. (It's all outlined…
Alphabeat Bimbo Jones remix video: quite good
Bimbo Jones remixes to find themselves hiding under the 'competent but not going to change the world' umbrella and their work on Alphabeat's '10,000 Nights' does little to change this fact. …
Katy Perry goes large
Remember we mentioned Katy Perry, whose 'Hot & Cold' is brilliant and whose 'Ur So Gay' is not brilliant? Her first proper single in the States is somewhere between the…
Thoughts on the new CSS album
1. More pop than the last one. 2. One of the songs sounds a bit like Alphabeat. 3. Best songs are 'Believe Achieve' (electroish sort of affair), 'Move' (which sounds a…
Yesterday when I was on stage with Madness
Last Saturday the Pet Shop Boys made a short live appearance at 'Can You Bear It?', a benefit night held at Heaven for the family of Dainton, their assistant and…
Frankmusik's 'In Step' video: girl in pants with hula hoop
The new Frankmusik video, for 'In Step', has got everything: a pretty girl in her pants for straight fans, and a glow in the dark hula hoop for the gays. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBaFtE34Fw…
An official unofficial video for Robyn's 'Bum Like You'
Here's an odd video thing Robyn shot when she was at SXSW last month or whenever it was. It's a 'Bum Like You' video which in terms of well-executed kookiness…